"The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within."

-- N.K. Jemisin

#Shadow Quotes #Nightmare Quotes #Never Forget Quotes

“Another day gone and no jokes.”
“A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.”
“One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.”
“We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.”
“It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in ten different ways at once. And the improbability of any complex organ being produced and brought to perfection in any such way is an improbability of the same kind and degree as that of producing a poem or a mathematical demonstration by throwing letters at random on a table.”
“The loss of the religious understanding of the human conditionâ€”that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainableâ€”is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substituteâ€”the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasuresâ€”is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee
“Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.”
“Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.”

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